Senior Platform Engineering Lead

fanaticsfbg; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Fanaticsfbg is seeking a senior platform engineering leader to set technical direction for cloud-native services, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability. You will drive architecture and delivery across multi-team initiatives with an emphasis on reliability, scale, and developer productivity.

In this hands-on role you will mentor engineers, shape platform capabilities, and ensure secure, cost-aware operations while partnering with cross-functional teams to accelerate software delivery at scale.

Qualifications

• Track record leading complex, cross-team initiatives with milestones.
• Strong software engineering background in backend and distributed systems.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, cloud-native architecture, and production Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform or CloudFormation) and automation.
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and dev tooling.
• Observability across logs, metrics, traces; incident management at scale.
• Proficiency in Go or Python and clear cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of platform capabilities across cloud infra and Kubernetes.
• Guide initiatives from architecture to deployment and refinement.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of services.
• Contribute to incident response and improve availability and stability.
• Promote best practices for software delivery and infra management.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical culture.

Skills

Cross-team leadership

Backend development

Distributed systems

AWS & cloud-native

Kubernetes in production

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Go or Python

Team communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Cassandra

Java

Kotlin

Job description

Fanaticsfbg is seeking a senior platform engineering leader to set technical direction for cloud-native services, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability. You will drive architecture and delivery across multi-team initiatives with an emphasis on reliability, scale, and developer productivity.

In this hands-on role you will mentor engineers, shape platform capabilities, and ensure secure, cost-aware operations while partnering with cross-functional teams to accelerate software delivery at scale.